How do you simplify $6(2p - m) - 3m - 12p$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-03-25T21:55:58

$-9m$

We can start by distributing the $6$ to the terms in the parenthesis. Here, we are just multiplying. We get:

$12p-6m-3m-12p$

We can combine our like terms to get:

$cancel(12p)-9mcancel(-12p)$

$=>-9m$

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